Te Tamaki used to watch her elder brother play rugby for
Hamilton Boys' High School and thought the sport was not for her, as it was too scary and had too much contact. But the Girls' High coach, former Black Fern Crystal Kaua, convinced her to start the sport. and made her debut at the
USA Women's Sevens. She was selected for
New Zealand's women's sevens team to the
2016 Summer Olympics. She
won a silver medal with the team and broke a New Zealand record held since the
1952 Summer Olympics by becoming the country's youngest female medallist. However, she only held the honour for 18 months until the record broken again by 16-year-old
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott at the
2018 Winter Olympics. Te Tamaki was named as a travelling reserve for the Black Ferns Sevens squad to the
2022 Commonwealth Games in
Birmingham.
Wests Tigers On 2 June 2025 it was reported that she had joined
Wests Tigers for the 2025 season. ==References==